amazon quarter. i thought there were a number of positive take-aways here. the operating income number actually topped the guidance that the company provided. the one kind of blip in the quarter was revenue as you alluded to. that is actually in a way due to the law of large numbers. it s finally catching up. i think the main story here as i think about amazon is the favorable mix shift from traditional lower margin businesses to actually businesses that are now going to be incremental to the overall margin. think about cloud computing, think about the shift to third party sellers and also the growing advertising business. all of this i think bodes well for future profitability. maria: what drove things in the quarter and how would you characterize the holiday season in terms of the nuts and bolts of the business, delivery and retail? sure. so i think we know that the holiday season actually came in fairly strong overall across the industry. amazon has been gaining share.
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possible. in the islamic world, and ultimately in the authoritarian powers, that is in russia and in china. my i think what reagan would have argued is, look, we can get along or we can manage a piece with these countries, but we ll never achieve any lasting accomplishments or any lasting developments together with those countries unless there s some narrowing of these idealogical differences. for example, in some islamic countries, it s not possible to have an opposition party because you can t be second ewe list. you must, in fact, adhere to the islamic law. which is identified with the government and with the state. individualism in asian societies is such a different concept as it is in western societies, that is individuals have the right to question authorities, even authority of their own parents and their own family. we believe that in the west. we educate our children to think for themselves. sometimes that means they do disagree with their parents as well as with
myself. on march 29, 1973 the last combat troops were withdrawn from vietnam. when they returned to the united states these veterans like many who returned earlier were greeted with a cold and at times hostile reception. looking back more than 50 years at the experience during the vietnam war and return home, billy two feathers who served with u.s. army wrote my return to the states was typical of several people i talked to. family and friends would say been a while. others would call me names that i won t repeat. kenneth bizby who served in vietnam wrote when i got back to my hometown no one seemed to notice that i had been away nor did they care. these accounts and others record the national sentiment on a personal level. their stories remind us that most returning veterans were not even acknowledged for their sacrifice and that many suffered because of it. while the nation has worked to correct this mistake over the last few decades there is more congress can do to honor o